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THE tJAl f ALIGN
THURSDAY, FEB. 12, 1976
Intramural troubles
Crowding creates congestion
By DEBBY KRENEK
Battalion Staff Writer
“I’d like to reserve a handball
court for tomorrow evening. ”
“Sorry, but they’re all filled. ”
This is a familiar scene in the in
tramural office as facilities are vastly
overcrowded, Dennis Corrington,
director of intramurals and recrea
tional sports, said.
Intramural courts may be re
served one day in advance. The in
tramural office opens at 8 a.m., but
all the courts for the following day
are filled by 9:30 a.m.
Intramural facilities are located in
DeWare Fieldhouse, G. Rollie
White Coliseum, the swimming pool
and tennis courts. These house re
creational, intramural, extramural
and club sports activities such as
handball, badminton, volleyball,
basketball, table tennis, fencing and
other sports.
All students, faculty and staff
members may use these facilities
which are open from 8 a.m. to mid
night if they present appropriate
IDs.
However, there is one big prob
lem, Corrington said. “The prog
rammed activities (intramurals, club
sports, and P.E. classes) have prior
ity and take up the majority of the
time leaving very little free time for
those who wish to use the facilities
purposes.
Cor-
for recreational
rington said.
We definitely need more
facilities,” Corrington said. “The
seven activity areas we have are full
every night.”
Approximately one-third of the
student-faculty population uses
these facilities for recreation alone,
Corrington said.
“The ideal situation would be for
an individual to come over and play
whenever he wishes,” Corrington
pointed out. “I should be able to
schedule part of the facilities for
programmed activities and leave
some areas in the facility free for
anyone who wishes to play, but in
tramurals and club sports have dou
bled in size since last year so I can’t.
“So many times an individual
might come to play basketball, and
go from court to court finding each
full, ” Corrington said. “He gives up
and goes home and our purpose is
defeated.
“You just can’t take care of every
body through programmed activities
because they only meet a few times a
week and most people like to come
more than that,” Corrington said.
Texas A&M University has seven
football fields adjacent to Jersey
Street which are in use constantly by
practicing intramural teams. Cor-
Gil Steinke hawks
TSWA coach award
rington said. However, after the
Aggie bonfire in November, the four
central fields are not usable until
February.
“The bonfire takes its toll on the
turf, cutting down drastically our av
ailable space,” Corrington said.
Those practicing for intramural ac
tivities use every green space on
campus that is available as well as
several city parks.
“I’ve often seen people trying to
play football in the valley by the pres
ident’s house,” Corrington said.
Besides the shortage of space, the
condition of the present facilities is
not good, Corrington pointed out.
DeWare houses 14 handball courts.
While most handball courts are
made of plaster, these are not.
“The old basketball field house on
the second floor was remodeled to
make the handball courts. Some of
them aren’t even the regulation
size,” Corrington said.
Texas A&M has five basketball
courts, one in DeWare and four in G.
Rollie White.
“Four of the courts are high school
regulation size,” Corrington said.
“We recently purchased a used
scoreboard so there would be a time
clock in one of the four courts, but all
of the courts need them. ”
Also, the lighting on the third floor
of G. Rollie White is inadequate.
“We either need a new system of
lights or an increase in wattage,”
Corrington said.
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Associated Press
DALLAS — The Texas Sports
Writers Association presented its
annual awards Wednesday night at
the annual All Sports Banquet with
Gil Steinke of Texas A&I becoming
the first small college coach to be
named Senior College Coach of the
Year.
Steinke led the Javelinas to their
second consecutive small college na
tional title last season.
Dick Peebles of the Houston
Chronicle, vice president of the
TSWA, also presented awards to:
— Jim Gideon, ace of the national
champion Texas Longhorn pitching
staff as Amateur Athlete of the Year.
— Bum Phillips of the Houston
Oilers, pro coach of the year.
— Abe Lemons of Pan American,
winter sports coach of the year.
— Cliff Gustafson, Texas baseball
coach, senior spring coach of the
year.
— Mike Mitchell of Western
Texas, junior college coach of the
year.
Dallas Cowboy quarterback Roger
Staubach and professional golfer
Don January received individual
awards. Staubach was honored with
the Field Scovell Award and January
took the Big D Award for sports con
tributions bringing honor to the city
of Dallas.
Special achievement awards were
also presented to rodeo star Don Gay
and Dallas Tornado goal keeper Ken
Cooper.
Discount food coupon booklets are
now available at the Food Services
Office, Sbisa Hall and the MSC Food
Services Manager’s Office. Coupons
are redeemable in campus cash food
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Four intramural softball courts
and eight soccer and flag football
courts were opened this fall across
the railroad tracks west of campus.
However, none of these fields was
equipped with lights.
Since many students are in classes
until 5 p.m., the fields are only in use
for about an hour because Daylight
Savings Time causes it to get dark
around 6 p.m.
provided, spectators sit on the floors
or around the courts and get in the
way of play, creating hazards for both
players and viewers.
Intramurals
“instead of spending money for
more courts, the university should
provide lights for these courts in
creasing their usage time to seven
hours a day,” Corrington em
phasized.
Corrington recently turned in in
tramural facility improvement plans
which would cost around $25,000.
“We need more indoor classroom
facilities and office space as well as
sports activity areas,” Corrington
said.
Another problem facing the in
tramural department is that of spec
tators. Because there are no stands
INTRAMURAL BASKETBALL
Military: Sq-12 vs. M-l, 28-55;
M-Band vs. A-l 25-38.
Fish: K-l vs. N-2, N-2 forfeit; Sq-4
vs. Sq-12, Sq-12 forfeit; D-l vs.
Sq-11, 19-35; E-l vs. Sq-2, 26-57.
Independent: Buffalo vs. J.T. s,
46-50, Crocker vs. Rockets, 29-69;
Trotters vs. Dunn No. 3, 21-79; Utay
vs. S. W. Village 37-20.
Civilian: Crocker vs. Dunn,
28-79; Moses vs. Moore, 38-56; Law
vs. Legett, 71-34; Milner vs.
Puryear, 23-70; Hotard vs. Mclnnis,
28-79; Moses vs. Moore, 38-56;
Law vs. Legett, 71-34; Milner vs.
Co-Rec: Colonels vs. Gin Fizzes,
Gin Fizzes forfeit; Little Lakers vs.
BSU, 65-41, BMF’s vs. Old College
Main, Forfeit-Old College Main.
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